There’s been a dire shortage of camping missions recently, what with the covid and rat racing commitments. And we missed the salmon run last year. So this year it was doubly crucial […]
Salmon Camp 2021
Yeagarup Beach Camp
Yeagarup is famous for being the place where I lost my camera a few years ago. This time I was more careful, making sure I came home with evidence of the copious […]
Salmon Fishing Camps
Our trip across the Nullarbor to South Australia and Melbourne is over and we’re back home. Now what? Rat race? No way. How about fixing the house up interspersed with camping trips and […]
Salmon Fishing Camp
Would you believe this salmon fishing trip is the first time I haven’t caught a salmon on a salmon fishing trip since 1963. You probably wouldn’t believe it, not if you knew […]
80 mile beach
With no luck catching threadfin salmon around Broome and Cape Leveque, it was time to get serious and actually catch one. I did that at Barn Hill, a spot at the northern […]
Cape Leveque West Coast
The west coast of Cape Leveque has some good free camping spots, nice beaches and some fishing. No facilities, all bush camping. I was hoping to land many threadfin salmon, especially since […]
Free Food Salmon Camp
Not happy with our $15 food spend from a salmon fishing trip of a couple years ago, this time we decided to go completely free. For this camping mission all food was […]
Anzac Day Salmon Mission
Wow it’s been over a year already since our last long weekend salmon hunt. This year, instead of Easter, we headed down for the Anzac Day long weekend. There are many things different between […]
Easter Camp Deepdene Beach
For Easter I teamed up with Hongo (again) for a traditional Easter salmon hunting mission in southwest WA. Our location of choice – Deepdene Beach, near Augusta – the place where both […]
Yeagarup, Lost Camera and Work
Salmon fishing on a beach in South West Western Australia is an important tradition for West Australian’s over Easter. Salmon are a member of the Holy Trinity after all. We cultivated that […]
West Alligator Head, Kakadu
The chap at the Point Stuart Wilderness Lodge reception told us we should try West Alligator Head, slightly further down the Arnhem Highway from Point Stuart. So that’s where we headed. It’s […]
How to Catch Australian Salmon
Check out my new article on how to catch Australian Salmon.
South Coast Chapter closed – reflections of a fisherman
Fish Count: 21 (under sized fish excluded) Rigs lost: 1 As we depart the coast I can’t help but reflect on the last two months of fishing. As you can see from […]
Poison Creek Beach, YES SALMON!
We had parked up on poison creek beach in Cape Arid National Park and I was busy reading the third book in the Hunger Games Trilogy in the Hilux while Joe was […]
Roughing it, dune camping, Fitzgerald National Park
We have just spend our first night dune beach camping in Fitzgerald National Park near the mouth of Gordon Inlet at Tooregullup Beach. The unsealed 20km dirt road took almost 2 hours to drive […]
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